Laravel The PHP cURL extension must be installed to use Guzzle

Most of the webposts are inaccurate. Nobody uses this for web development anymore.


The webposts which say to uncomment
;extension=php_curl.dll

in php.ini are wrong. You still get an error message 

no-debug-non-zts-20121212 not found. This means the php install libcurl option was not enabled during compile. 

dc@localhost ~]$ laravel new blog
Crafting application...


                                                         
  [Guzzle\Common\Exception\RuntimeException]              
  The PHP cURL extension must be installed to use Guzzle.
                                                         


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If you are installing php from the source code, configure with libcurl option. And make sure you installed libcurl-devel. 

>sudo yum install libxml2-devel

>sudo yum install libcurl-devel

Verify you see the curl.h headers under /usr/include/curl

dc@localhost ~]$ ls /usr/include/curl

curlbuild-64.h  curl.h       curlver.h  mprintf.h  stdcheaders.h    types.h

curlbuild.h     curlrules.h  easy.h     multi.h    typecheck-gcc.h

>cd into the php 5.5.13 directory

[dc@localhost php-5.5.13]$ ./configure --with-curl

...output omittedc

>[dc@localhost php-5.5.13]$ sudo make install

Installing shared extensions:     /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/

Installing PHP CLI binary:        /usr/local/bin/

Installing PHP CLI man page:      /usr/local/php/man/man1/

Installing PHP CGI binary:        /usr/local/bin/

Installing PHP CGI man page:      /usr/local/php/man/man1/

Installing build environment:     /usr/local/lib/php/build/

Installing header files:          /usr/local/include/php/

Installing helper programs:       /usr/local/bin/

  program: phpize

  program: php-config

Installing man pages:             /usr/local/php/man/man1/

  page: phpize.1

  page: php-config.1

Installing PEAR environment:      /usr/local/lib/php/

[PEAR] Archive_Tar    - already installed: 1.3.11

[PEAR] Console_Getopt - already installed: 1.3.1

[PEAR] PEAR           - already installed: 1.9.4

Wrote PEAR system config file at: /usr/local/etc/pear.conf

You may want to add: /usr/local/lib/php to your php.ini include_path

[PEAR] Structures_Graph- already installed: 1.0.4

[PEAR] XML_Util       - already installed: 1.2.1

/home/dc/Downloads/php-5.5.13/build/shtool install -c ext/phar/phar.phar /usr/local/bin

ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/phar.phar /usr/local/bin/phar

Installing PDO headers:          /usr/local/include/php/ext/pdo/